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Unit 6: Moving Forward: Evaluating Impacts of Modern-day Proposals Affecting the Carbon-cycle and Climate part of Carbon, Climate, and Energy Resources
Pete Berquist, Virginia Peninsula Community College
In this unit, students will review mock proposals that deal with some aspect of the role of carbon in the environment. Each proposal is based on actual actions proposed to mitigate some aspect of carbon consumption ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory
Resource Type: Activities: Course Module, Activities
Subject: Environmental Science:Energy, Geoscience:Geology:Environmental Geology, Environmental Science:Sustainability, Global Change and Climate:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Environmental Science
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary, Passed Peer Review

Unit 3: Rivers and Water Diversion part of Environmental Justice and Freshwater Resources - Spanish
Ruth Hoff, Wittenberg University. Authored and compiled new case study material based on Unit 3 of Environmental Justice and Freshwater Resources module by Adriana Perez, Jill S. Schneiderman, Meg Stewart, and Joshua Villalobos
In this unit students will explore surface water and its relationship to the water cycle via watersheds and drainage divides. These topics will inform their analysis of the social and environmental impacts of the ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), College Upper (15-16)
Resource Type: Activities: Course Module, Activities:Classroom Activity:Short Activity:Think-Pair-Share, Activities
Subject: Geoscience:Hydrology:Surface Water, Geoscience:Geology:Environmental Geology, Environmental Science:Water Quality and Quantity, Sustainability, Languages:Spanish, Physics:Other Sciences:Environmental Science, Geography, Environmental Science:Energy:Renewable & Alternative Energy
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review, Peer Reviewed as Exemplary

Unit 1: "If an earthquake happens in the desert and no one lives there, should we care about it?" [How are human-made infrastructure lifelines affected by earthquakes?] part of Imaging Active Tectonics
Bruce Douglas, Indiana University-Bloomington; Gareth Funning, University of California-Riverside
This unit initiates a discussion about the importance of recognizing faults in relation to modern societal infrastructure. Students consider the types of infrastructure necessary to support a modern lifestyle, ...

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities, Course Module
Subject: Geoscience:Geology:Tectonics, Environmental Geology, Structural Geology:Geophysics and Structural Geology, Folds/Faults/Ductile Shear Zones, Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics:Geodynamics, Seismology, Environmental Science:Energy:Energy Infrastructure, Environmental Science:Land Use and Planning:Large-Scale Development, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Floods/Fluvial Processes, Engineering, Environmental Science:Natural Hazards:Mass Wasting, Earthquakes, Environmental Science:Sustainability, Geoscience:Geology:Geophysics:Geodesy, Geoscience:Geology:Structural Geology:Regional Structural/Tectonic Activity
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary

Capstone Project part of Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability
For those teaching the modules as an entire course, we provide a capstone summary assessment activity. This activity is designed to incorporate scaffolding of the material, to use the gained knowledge to do ...

Grade Level: College Upper (15-16), College Lower (13-14)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities
Subject: Environmental Science:Energy:Efficiency and Energy Conservation, Environmental Science:Energy, Energy:Renewable & Alternative Energy, Environmental Science:Sustainability
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary

10. Energy from Biofuels part of Renewable Energy and Environmental Sustainability
Benjamin Cuker, Hampton University
This unit explores the historic, current, and potential use of biomass for the production of energy. Various bio fuels are introduced, and students are reminded of the role of biomass in the development of ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), College Upper (15-16)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities, Course Module
Subject: Environmental Science:Air Quality, Energy:Renewable & Alternative Energy, Environmental Science:Sustainability, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Meteorology:Air quality, Environmental Science:Energy
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Unit 7: Climate Change from the Socio-Environmental Systems Perspective part of Regulating Carbon Emissions
Robyn Smyth, Bard College; Curt Gervich, SUNY College at Plattsburgh; Eric Leibensperger, Ithaca College
This unit summarizes and synthesizes the previous six units by inviting students to reflect on their experiences throughout the module, identify key learning moments and consider how these events influenced their ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14):College Introductory, College Lower (13-14)
Resource Type: Activities: Course Module, Activities
Subject: Environmental Science:Air Quality, Energy:Fossil Fuels, Energy Policy , Geoscience:Geology:Environmental Geology, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Public policy , Anthropogenic causes, Greenhouse gas emissions, Impacts of climate change, Environmental Science:Sustainability, Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Anthropogenic causes, Environmental Science:Policy, Economics, Political Science, Environmental Science:Policy:Energy Policy, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change, Climate Change:Greenhouse gas emissions, Public policy, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Meteorology:Air quality, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary

Determining Energy Efficiency: A Lab Activity part of Curriculum for the Bioregion:Activities
Paul Frazey, Whatcom Community College
Students determine the energy efficiency of different methods of heating substances in the lab and then assess the economic and environmental costs.

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14)
Resource Type: Activities: Activities
Subject: Environmental Science:Energy, Chemistry
Activity Review: Passed Peer Review

Renew-a-Bead Game part of CLEAN Collection

https://www.teachengineering.org/activities/view/cla_act...

Susan Powers, Jan DeWaters, A number of Clarkson and St. Lawrence University students in the K-12 Project Based Learning Partnership Program
Students work in pairs to pick black and white beads out of a bag to represent the percent of renewable and nonrenewable resources used in different countries, and then graph the information.

Grade Level: Intermediate (3-5), Middle (6-8)
Online Readiness: Designed for In-Person
Resource Type: Activities: Activities
Subject: Environmental Science:Energy:Fossil Fuels, Environmental Science:Energy, Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Mitigation of climate change, Environmental Science:Energy:Renewable & Alternative Energy, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary

Sustainability Metrics part of CLEAN Collection

https://serc.carleton.edu/eddie/teaching_materials/modul...

Natalie D. Hunt, Eddy Project
Sustainability is a complex term applied to many different contexts in a variety of ways. As a result, it can be challenging to determine how sustainable something really is. In this module, students ...

Grade Level: College Lower (13-14), College Upper (15-16)
Online Readiness: Online Adaptable
Resource Type: Activities: Activities
Subject: Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climatology , Meteorology:Atmospheric structure and composition, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate, Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Impacts of climate change, Environmental Science:Energy
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary

Debating the Grid Example part of CLEAN Collection

https://cleanet.org/clean/literacy/teach_guidance/debate...

Cheryl Manning
Students research electricity, its sources, how energy grids function, how to make grids most efficient, and how to bring different types of energy generation together to diversify grids. Students ...

Grade Level: High School (9-12), College Lower (13-14)
Online Readiness: Online Adaptable
Resource Type: Activities: Activities:Classroom Activity, Curriculum Description
Subject: Environmental Science:Energy, Energy:Energy Infrastructure, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change:Anthropogenic causes, Greenhouse gas emissions, Environmental Science:Global Change and Climate:Climate Change, Climate Change:Mitigation of climate change, Geoscience:Atmospheric Science:Climate Change:Greenhouse gas emissions, Anthropogenic causes
Activity Review: Peer Reviewed as Exemplary